The Best Movies Never Nominated for a Single Oscar
Last updated: January 24, 2023
Judging from the complaints that pour in each year, the Academy gets many things wrong—including, with surprising regularity, completely ignoring some of each year's most acclaimed films. In the gallery above, you can find the 30 highest-scoring films since 2000 that did not receive any Oscar nominations (in any category). They are ranked by Metascore, but all of these films scored or higher—suggesting massive critical acclaim.
Note that documentaries are excluded (since there are fewer opportunities for those films to receive nominations). Also excluded are movies that qualified for Emmys rather than Oscars (such as the Small Axe films).
Additional content by Keith Kimbell
Taiwanese director Edward Yang's 2000 drama (sometimes subtitled "A One and a Two") spends three hours chronicling the daily lives of members of a middle-class family. The film premiered to acclaim at Cannes, where Yang won the festival's directing award, and it went on to collect additional awards from critic groups in Los Angeles and New York. But Yi Yi had the misfortune of debuting in the same year as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Per Oscar rules, Taiwan could only submit one film for consideration, and the latter was the country's obvious choice (and a good one: it won the foreign-language Oscar).
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